Panda Bear & Sonic Boom - A ? of When janis joplin Joy Yates delivering the vocals

Joy Yates delivering the vocals and of course Carr on trumpet

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‘Manipulation’ explores the futility of going through the motions

but this time there is less of an emphasis on the screaming and more on the gentle melody of the verse

I think of it as an attempt to clone William Faulkner to Bobbie Gentry

Panda Bear & Sonic Boom - A ? of When janis joplin Joy Yates delivering the vocalsPanda Bear and Sonic Booms second album together, A ? of When, maintains the sense of musical play brought forth in their triumphant 2022 debut, Reset. It is built on loops of harp (Mary Lattimore) and sequences of steel drum, webs of pedal steel and even bits of a mariachi band. These are, of course, deliberate choices, sounds and textures theyve never used and that offered a clear sonic break from the success of Reset. Maybe more than ever, Sonic